Phrase Hound found 2 phrases and 14 compound words that contain absurd. The most common are listed below. Open absurd in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 2
- Theatre of the AbsurdA primarily European style of absurdist theatre of the late 1950s, focusing on existentialism and the breakdowns arising from a lack of meaning or purpose.
- reduction to the absurdSynonym of reductio ad absurdum: The method of disproving a statement by assuming the statement is true and, with that assumption, arriving at a blatant contradiction.
Compound words 14
- absurdityThat which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
- absurdismA philosophy which holds that the universe is chaotic and irrational and that any attempt to impose order will ultimately fail.
- AbsurdistanAny country where absurdity is the norm, especially in its public authorities and government.
- nonabsurdNot absurd;
- absurdifyTo make absurd.
- unabsurdNot absurd.
- absurdificationThe process of becoming absurd.
- absurdistAn advocate of absurdism, in particular a writer of absurd topics.
- absurditiesplural of absurdity: That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
- absurdestsuperlative form of absurd: most absurd